Arcane Mage Talents & Build Guide – Legion 7.3.5

Welcome to the Arcane Mage Talent guide! This guide provides an overview of all Arcane Mage Talents, information on which talents work well in different situations, and popular Arcane Mage builds in Wowhead's talent calculator. This guide is written by Malon, who raids with <Omen> on Emerald Dream EU; his lifelong ambition is to have the Warlock class renamed to 'Fuzzy Cuddlebears'. Find him on Twitter and at Altered-Time mage forums. Updated for the latest patch.

Amplificazione is the best choice due to the large increase in Missiles damage. Elmion Arcano is a solid boost to your capacity, specifically the burn phase, and scales well with gear. Parole del Potere will help in your conserve phase. but is too random to be a reliable pick.

Tier 2 Talents

Luccichio - Gives Blink two charges, takes it off the global cooldown and makes its usable while casting.

All three of these talents have a specific place. Luccichio is a fantastic upgrade to Traslazione; the importance of extra manoeuvrability cannot be overstated. The same applies to Corrente Ascensionale; which you take is a matter of personal and encounter choice. Considering the importance of mana for Arcane Mages, Scudo di Mana is inferior to the other options on this tier.

Tier 3 Talents

Immagine Speculare - Creates copies of you which will attack your enemies for 40 seconds. Enemies will prefer to attack them instead of you.

Runa del Potere - Places a Rune on the ground for 10 seconds. All damage you deal while standing inside is increased by 40%. Two charges.

Flusso dell'Incantatore - Steadily increases the damage you deal while in combat, up to 20%, and then decreases to 4%. This cycle repeats every 10 seconds.

Arcane does very well with Runa del Potere, as it plays to the flavours of frequent burst and immobility.Flusso dell'Incantatore is a passive option that will provide solid returns, and should be the go-to option if you are not comfortable with Rune of Power. Arcane Mages can ‘bank' procs of Arcane Missiles to use at high stacks. Immagine Speculare is useful in single-target fights with burst requirements; however, the spell doesn't line up with any of Arcane's other cooldowns, so it's a weaker choice.

Tier 4 Talents

Supernova - Creates an explosion around your target, dealing damage to all enemies and double damage to the primary target. Also knocks enemies into the air.

Erosione - Your attacks increase the damage the target takes from your Arcane spells by 1%, stacking up to 8%. This effect lasts for three seconds and then decays at a rate of 1% every second.

With the removal of Quickening, Erosione has become the best choice on the tier, beating Tempesta Fatua even on AoE encounters. Stacks will start to drop after three seconds, but even if they do the long-term gain through a fight makes this stronger than the other options.If you do take Nether Tempest, cast it at four Carica Arcana stacks and on a target that will stay alive for the full duration (such as a boss). Despite the number of Arcane Blasts cast by Arcane Mages, Magia Instabile is still not worth taking.

Potere Ineguagliabile is by far the most powerful choice, leading to longer and stronger burn phases. Flusso Temporale burns through too much mana to be worth taking at the expense of Overpowered (but they play well together with Anima dell'Arcimago). Globo Arcano is potentially useful for Fortified weeks in M+, but you lose a lot of boss damage without Overpowered.